SLM Database

Forests in headwater areas benefit water quality and hydrologic cycling. Furthermore, maintaining and restoring the forest cover in headwater catchments offers other, multiple benefits such as increased soil water retention, intercepted pollution pathways, improved soil, maintained biodiversity and captured carbon dioxide.

• Compiler: Marie Anne Eurie Forio
• 06/22/2021 11:23 a.m.

Undersowing of grass into maize helps prevent leaching of nitrogen in sandy soils, and keeps the soil surface covered year-round. However, the time of sowing, choice of grass variety and seeding rate are all crucial to its success.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/25/2023 2:41 p.m.

Field margins in agricultural areas are sown with specific flowers to attract insects which help combating pests of crops and livestock and reduce the need for pesticides.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 10/09/2019 12:39 p.m.

The use of crop rotation in dairy farms to provide fodder on a healthy sandy soil

• Compiler: Sabine Reinsch
• 09/12/2019 4:41 p.m.

The technology consists of the use of cover crops and of a non-inversion seedbed preparation.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/08/2010 3:47 p.m.

The technology consists of the use of cover crops and of a non-inversion seedbed preparation

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/08/2010 2:22 p.m.

Le compost est un engrais organique issu de la décomposition des matériaux végétaux (résidus de récoltes, graminées herbacées, sous-produits végétaux, etc.) dans les conditions normales, pourvu qu’ils ne soient pas toxiques. Il peut être réalisé dans une fosse compostière ou en tas et permet le recyclage des déchets et résidus …

• Compiler: Biomasse Electricité Bénin
• 08/24/2018 6:27 a.m.

Gmelina trees as a basis for an agroforestry system help increase the soil's organic matter content, foster associated biodiversity, optimize the hydrological cycle, mitigate soil erosion, and generate income.

• Compiler: Gatien AGBOKOUN CHRISTOPHE
• 03/04/2023 8:21 p.m.

Biochar is generated through the process of pyrolysis (partial combustion) of plant biomass like corn cobs or forest residues, in a heat-intensive, oxygen-free or low-oxygen environment. By spreading biochar on fields, the objective is to enhance the nutrient-holding capacity and structure of soil, and thereby to improve plant production.

• Compiler: Gatien AGBOKOUN CHRISTOPHE
• 02/25/2023 5 p.m.

Rotational livestock grazing is an integrated agriculture and livestock management system where livestock are grazed in the dry season, in a crop field, to feed on crop residues and/or weeds and where manure is used as an organic fertiliser for soil restoration purposes. While grazing, the animals feed on crop …

• Compiler: Gatien AGBOKOUN CHRISTOPHE
• 11/24/2022 1:30 a.m.